I♡My Dog
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kennan Ferguson (University of South Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-395 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591703260692 |
| OpenAlex | W2139782731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 21 |
Virtually all political theory and ethical systems presuppose the primacy of human beings. Abstract human beings have rights, privileges, legal standing, and—it is said—claims to our sympathy. Many political debates, therefore, center on questions of where these lines are to be drawn. But many humans do not behave this way. People, for example, may expend far more love, time, money, and energy on their pets’ well-being than on abstract humans. If the choice is between an operation to save their dog’s life, or saving a human life through the United Nations, for example, most will choose the former, even if put in such stark terms. This essay argues that people’s love for their dogs transcends the human/animal barrier, that this love overturns assumptions about the role of abstraction in our lives, and that such attunement can be understood only via new formulations of the roles of ethics and philosophy
Aesthetics · Animal ethics · Attunement · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human life · Law and economics · Non-human · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sentience · Sociology · Sympathy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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Människans sociala relationer med djur
On the Modern and the Nonmodern in Deliberative Environmental Democracy
On a Governmentality Analytics of the ‘Deliberative Turn’
Perpetual Strangers
Hobbes and the Wolf-Man
Animals in War
Political animals? On animals as subjects in an enlarged political geography
Mediated animal geographies
Bestiality and the Queering of the Human Animal
Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency
Language Death
IX.—Essentially Contested Concepts
Back to the Future
"To Give up on Words"
III. Some Developments in Wittgenstein's View of Ethics
Rethinking Transcendence
The Privatization of Good
John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage
On the Contestability of Social and Political Concepts
The significance of pauses in spontaneous speech
Bodies and Spaces
Disability and the Urban Environment
Ethical reading
I Wash My Face with Dirty Water
Family Feuds
Beyond birds
The Moral Sense
Leviathan Writ Small
Culture as Disability
A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism
Two Kinds of Antiessentialism and Their Consequences
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |